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Cutis

//ˈkjutəs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.

    "I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […]"

  2. 2
    a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch wordnet
  3. 3
    The peridium of some fungi.

Etymology

From Latin cutis (“living skin”).

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